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Re: [Cryptography] What is a secure conversation? (Was: online
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Braggins)
Thu Jan 2 11:41:52 2014
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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 10:49:36 +0000
From: Alan Braggins <alan.braggins@gmail.com>
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On 01/01/14 18:28, Patrick Mylund Nielsen wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com
> <mailto:hallam@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> The nuclear codes leaked long ago. I know the navy one from the 60s
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/launch-code-for-us-nukes-was-00000000-for-20-years/
I've seen another version of that story that adds an important detail,
but I don't know which version is correct.
The other version is that there were codes added to ensure that US
nukes deployed in other NATO countries could only be launched with
co-operation of both the US and the "host" country, and those codes
always all zeroes for nukes that were under exclusive US control.
The all zero code was not really a "launch code"; launching a missile
involved a lot more than checking that code:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/05/nuclear-missile-code-00000000-cold-war_n_4386784.html
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